Products with derivations can be edited upon IMVU approval

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As of August 3, 2015, we have made the following change to the way product editing works:

If a product has already been derived, then it can no longer be edited by its Creator. Product name, product description page can still be modified. We have not allowed price changes in the past so there is no change there.

To illustrate:

• Creator 1 makes Product A 

• Creator 2 derives from Product A to make Product B 

• Creator 1 can no longer edit/change Product A unless she gets it unlocked by IMVU. 

• If Product A has not been derived from by anyone, then Creator 1 can edit it. 

If such products do need to be edited, then the Creator will need to file a help ticket with an explanation as to why they need to edit the product so we can unlock it. The product will be locked again upon editing and re-submission.

Though we do not see this happening, if for some reason IMVU makes a change requiring creators to make modifications to their products (meshes) then we will unlock all products to allow for those changes.

Why the change? 

We have had several instances where a mesher with malicious intent has deliberately modified multiple products in their catalog in order to render all the derived products useless causing customer complaints for those deriving creators. Such products can not be changed back -- even by IMVU.

We have monitored the product editing activity and instances of a product that has already been derived from are rare. For those legitimate situations where a mesher does need to fix a product, we will unlock them via help ticket process.